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Top 20 Richard Wilbur Quotes (2025 Update)

Richard Wilbur Quote: “What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “A thrush, because I’d been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “That’s the main business of the poem!-to see if you can’t make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “What you hope for Is that at some point of the pointless journey, Indoors or out, and when you least expect it, Right in the middle of your stride, like that, So neatly that you never feel a thing, The kind assassin Sleep will draw a bead And blow your brains out.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product’s something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “Odd that a thing is most itself when likened.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “I die of thirst here at the fountainside.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “I would feel dead if I didn’t have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they not traversed the seas And come infected back, Why, think of all the luxuries That modern life would lack.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “It is not tricks of sense But the time’s fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence.”
Richard Wilbur Quote: “Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.”
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